391. Brehm, Alfred.

Brehms Tierleben – Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs. Mit 1803 Abbildungen im Text, 633 Tafeln in Farbendruck, Kupferaetzung und Holzschnitt sowie 13 Karten. Herausgegeben von Prof.Dr.Otto zur Strassen.

Vierte, vollstaendig neubearbeitete Auflage. 13 Baende (vollstaendig). Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, 1913. Quarto (19 cm breit x 26 cm hoch). Hardcover / Original Publisher’s half-leather / Sehr dekorative Halbleder-Ausgabe. Einige Baende etwas berieben und an den Kapitalen bestossen aber generell firm und sehr gut erhalten / Alle Abbildungen enthalten und die Chromolithographischen Tafeln mit den originalen Schutzpapieren erhalten. Farbgebung der Chromolithographischen Tafeln ist frisch und fantastisch erhalten ! / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The rare last edition with several chromolithographic plates in colour.

392. [MacCabe Fay, Patrick (Provenance)] Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Passages from The American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Second Edition. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Octavo. 309 pages plus six unnumbered pages of a Catalogue of publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Poor condition with stronger signs of wear. The binding is fragile with the bookblock slightly separating from the binding. Still, the overall condition is still Good+ with foxing throughout (as usual with this publication) and a faded dampstain to rear endpaper and pastedown. From the library of Patrick MacCabe Fay, with his Bookplate / Exlibris to front free endpaper with the Family-Motto: “Toujours Fidele – Aut Vincere Aut Mori” [″Always Faithful – Either Win or Die”](see image). Very Rare publication !

393. Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of.

Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: together with other several pieces on various subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her Possession

The Third Edition. In Four Volumes (complete set). London, J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. Octavo. Collation: Volume I: Engraved frontispiece of Stanhope, XVI, 352 pages / Volume II: (2), 355 pages / Volume III: (2), 376 pages / Volume IV: (2), 364 pages. (Collation complete). Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Smaller dampstain to lower first and last two pages of two volumes only. The bindings a little shaky but holding. Provenance: From the library of Robert Doyne, with his Exlibris – bookplate to the front pastedown of all four volumes. While he died already in 1733 and these books were published in 1774, it is very likely that the bookplates were still applied by his librarian or family / Sir Robert Doyne (1651-1733) was member of the Irish House of Commons for New Ross from 1692 to 1695, and later a distinguished judge who served as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer from 1695 to 1703 and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas from 1703 to 1714. In the latter year like all the senior judges in Ireland appointed under Queen Anne he was removed by the new administration; while allegations of corruption were made, the removal seems to have been a simple matter of politics. Although the Irish House of Commons passed a resolution that he had acted corruptly no further action seems to have been taken against him and he lived in peaceful retirement for many years. (Wikipedia)

394. Diodorus Siculus.

Bibliothecae Historicae – Libri Qui Supersunt E Recensione Petri Wesselingii Cum Interpretatione Latina Laur. Rhodomani Atque Annotationibus Variorum Integris Indicibusque Locupletissimis. Nova editio, cum commentationibus III Chr. Gottl. Heynii [Christian Gottlob Heyne] et cum argumentis disputationibusque Ier. Nic. Eyringii.

[Editio Bipontina] / Bilingual Edition in Greek and Latin. 11 Volumes [complete set]. Biponti [Zweibrücken], Ex typographia Societatis, 1793. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: CLXXXII, 476 pages / Volume II: 565 pages / Volume III; 645 pages / Volume IV: LXXII, 400 pages / Volume V: 638 pages / Volume VI: 680 pages / Volume VII: 680 pages / Volume VIII: 568 pages / Volume IX: 553 pages / Volume X: 493 pages plus 1 unnumbered page of Corrigenda / Volume XI: 456 pages. Hardcover / Original full vellum with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very few Volumes with the pages a bit dusty and only some Volumes with a minor, faded dampstain to the outer margins. [From the library of Augustus Langdon, Bayswater, with his Exlibris to pastedown].

395. Lucretius Carus, Titus / [Epicurus] / Creech, Thomas.

T. Lucretius Carus, Of The Nature of Things, In Six Books, Translated into English Verse; By Tho[mas] Creech, A.M. late Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford. In Two Volumes. Explain’d and Illustrated with Notes and Animadversions ; Being a compleat System of the Epicurean Philosophy.

Two Volumes [complete set]. London, J.Matthews for G.Sawbridge, at theThree Golden Flower de Luces [The Three Fleur de Lys] in Little Britain, 1714 Octavo (13 cm wide x 20.4 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Lucretius, [This famous Frontispiece shows Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms] surrounded by Nature, Unicorn and Elephant,[This portrait by dutch engraver Michael Burghers], [36], 424 pages / Volume II: [3], pagination continues with pages 425 – 822 plus [5] pages of an “Alphabetical Catalogue of the Names of the Authors, as well Antient as Modern, cited in the Notes on Lucretius”, plus [28] pages of an “Alphabetical Index of the Principal Matters contain’d in the Text of, and Notes upon, Lucretius”, plus [1] page of an Errata Leaf. Hardcover / Original, tooled full leather with new spine-labels in teh style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar. Last 125 pages of Volume II with a minor, faded dampstain. Very minor signs of wormhole-damage in the pouter margins of a few pages only. Otherwise the interior in very good and bright condition. Bindings firm and only with very minor signs of fragility in the gutter. A stunning set of this rare work. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

396. [Calder, Alexander] Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°173 – Octobre 1968 [With 8 lithographes originales (including front and rear cover) / Two (2) of these lithographs are fantastic double-page lithographs)]. Avec Essais: “Un geant enfant” par Giovanni Carandente / “Note sur les “fleches” par Jacques Dupin /

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1968. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 24 pages plus 4 pages of lithographed Cover. (Text partially paginated up to page 14 and then continued without pagination). This Volume also includes a large section of black-and-white-photographs of Sculpture by Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

397. [Calder, Alexander] / Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°156 – Fevrier 1966 [With 8 lithographes originales, including cover / 3 of the lithographs are fantastic double-page lithographs (including cover)]. Avec Essais: “Oiseleur du Fer” (Solomon Grundy) par Jacques Prevert / Essai: “Alexander Calder” [Biographical Essay on Calder and his Mobiles] par Meyer Schapiro / Essai: “Les Gouaches de Calder” par Nicholas Guppy / Essai: “De L’Art’s Students League aux Totems…” par Alexander Calder.

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1966. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 28 pages plus 4 pages of lithographed Cover. (Text partially paginated up to page 15 and then continued without pagination). This Volume also includes a large section of black-and-white-photographs of Totems and Gouaches of Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

398. Smithson, Annie M. P.

The White Owl.

First Edition with dustjacket in first issue. Dublin / Cork, The Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. The rare dustjacket with fraying and a larger tear to the bottom. Some foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare Book !

399. [Seymour, William Deane, Cobh] Wilson, Colonel Sir Charles W.

Picturesque Palestine – Sinai and Egypt [Volume III and IV of the First Edition in Full Red Morocco, from the library of Captain William Deane Seymour of Cobh [Queenstown, Ireland] with his bookplate to endpaper – these possibly working copies for his later work “A Tour in Syria and Palestine”].

First Edition. London, J.S.Virtue and Co., [1870]. Folio. Volume III: VI, Map of Palestine, 240 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings / Volume IV: VI, Map of Egypt and Sinai, 236 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings. Very decorative full red Morocco with gilt lettering and ornament, bound by Francis Guy, Cork. Bindings rubbed with some minor wormhole-damage to Volume IV. PAstedowns and endpapers a little stained and dusty but interior absolutely excellent besides some foxing to tissue-guards.

400. Quin, Charles William.

A Treatise on the Dropsy of the Brain, Illustrated by a Variety of Cases to which are added, Observations on the Use and Effects of the Digitalis Purpurea in Dropsies. By Charles William Quin, M.D. – Fellow of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians, Physician General of His Majesty’s Army in Ireland and of the Royal Hospital of Invalids, near Dublin.

First Edition. London, Printed for J.Murray and W.Jones, Dublin, 1790. Octavo. [1], 227 pages. Original Bookblock (Disbound). Needs new binding but the bookblock is in excellent condition with some minor flaws only. Former copy of the R.C.P.I. Kirkpatrick Bequest, now Deaccessioned and furnished with three stamps of the Kirkpatrick Bequest. An extremely rare book.